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Dave Brubeck

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The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.


— Dave Brubeck


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The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.


— Dave Brubeck


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We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.


— Dave Brubeck


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What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.


— Dave Brubeck


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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.


— Dave Brubeck


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When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.


— Dave Brubeck


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When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.


— Dave Brubeck


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When he discovered that all he owned was a half interest in his own recording he was more than willing to sign with another label Columbia Records. Now I am going to play a cold piano with cold hands" Brubeck stated. His son Chris told the Guardian "when I hear Chorale it reminds me of the very best Aaron Copland something like Appalachian Spring.

His music is known for employing unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms meters and tonalities. Brubeck experimented with time signatures throughout his career recording "Pick Up Sticks" in 6/4 "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4 "World's Fair" in 13/4 and "Blue Rondo à la Turk" in 9/8. He was also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr.

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